The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 7

The good King was very much surprised to see her, for he knew his door had been tightly shut, and he could not think how she had got in.

Who acts: good King, king, door, rabbit · What happens: be, see, know, not think, get in · To what, where: rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good King, king, door, rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 surprised	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprised	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 surprised	advmod
7	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 surprised	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 knew	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 see	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 door	nmod:poss
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shut	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shut	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 shut	cop
19	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	20 shut	advmod
20	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knew	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 think	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 think	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 think	advmod
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 surprised	parataxis
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 got	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 got	aux
30	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 think	ccomp
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 got	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the good King		surprised property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the good King not said here	rabbit		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	know	past	king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	king's door		shut, tightly property	tree rules
5	not think speech: other	could	king			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	get in	past · perfect	rabbit			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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